[Discussion] FireFox & Thunderbird

[Chuck McKinnis]

Carl Kappen wrote:
> Chuck,
> 
> I was wondering what the "!L" meant.  Paul must have set it up that way 
> since Thunderbird, FireFox, and Seamonkey all have the "!L" in the name. 
> I have Thunderbird and FireFox running, and now that I can click on 
> links and open the browser, it is doing everything fine.  The only other 
> thing I didn't like about Thunderbird and FireFox is the menu items were 
> in different places and were not named the same.  That took me a lot 
> longer to set up, but I found them eventually.

I did not realize that Paul had already taken care of the co-existence 
problem.  All you need to do with the integration tool is get OS2.INI 
updated with the default browser and email client.

> 
> If I do switch can I set them up to have all the e-mail and bookmarks in 
> one place and shared?  Now I have my old machine with e-mail up to 
> 4/20/07 the new machine from 4/20/2007 on.   I wouldn't want to have the 
> e-mail in three places.  It would be nice to transfer all the saved 
> e-mail from the old machine (Mozilla), to the new one, if they would be 
> compatible, and shared with both Thunderbird and Seamonkey.

I don't think you can share the bookmarks because they are stored in the 
individual profile directories for each application.  However, I use a 
very handy add on called Foxmarks to keep bookmarks in synch across all 
of my machines, eCS, Windows, and Linux.

Mail is a different story.

I found that the best way to handle mail was to create a separate Mail 
directory and create a named sub-directory for the email account 
(E:\Mail\Chuck, for example).  I then edit the mail preferences to point 
the Server setting to that directory.  I then added a dummy user account 
for my Thinkpad and pointed it to the mail directory on the Thinkpad 
(connected via Peer).  I can then connect to my Thinkpad, open the dummy 
account, and move the messages I got on the road to my home machine. 
The same technique can be used to point to other Thunderbird and/or 
Seamonkey mail repositories.

Address books were the other problem.  I have a couple of address book 
synchronization add ons installed.  The SynchMab add on looks good, but 
I have had problems in getting it to work like I think it should.  The 
Addressbooks Sychronizer add on seems to work better for me.  I just 
export and import the various address books between machine.

> 
> Chuck McKinnis wrote:
>> Carl Kappen wrote:
>>   
>>> Hi Carl G.
>>>
>>> I got this machine from Paul Curits and looking on the HDD I see 
>>> SeaMonkey is already installed.  I'll give  it a click and see how I 
>>> like it.
>>>
>>> Carl Gehr wrote:
>>>     
>>>> Hi, Carl!
>>>>
>>>> My suggestion:  Scrap BOTH FF and TB and get SeaMonkey which is the
>>>> integrated suite like the old Mozilla.
>>>>
>>>> Get the package:
>>>>   
>>>>       
>>>>> 	seamonkey-1.1.1+.en-US.os2.enh.exe
>>>>>     
>>>>>         
>>>> from 
>>>>   
>>>>       
>>>>> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=183811&package_id=215808
>>>>>     
>>>>>         
>>>> Note:  This is an enhanced build from Peter Weilbacher.  I've been
>>>> using his builds very successfully on several systems.
>>>>
>>>> If you have your profiles and folders in a separate directory already,
>>>> SM should use them just fine.
>>>>
>>>> Carl G.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, 30 May 2007 16:41:45 -0400, Carl Kappen wrote:
>>>>
>>>>   
>>>>       
>>>>> I recently got a new computer with eCS installed.  I had been using 
>>>>> Mozilla with my old system.  The new one came loaded with FireFox and 
>>>>> Thunderbird.   One thing I miss is being able to click on a link in an 
>>>>> e-mail and going directly to the web page.  I have been using copy and 
>>>>> paste to go to the web site.   Is there a setting in Thunderbird to 
>>>>> click on a link and have FireFox go there if it is running, or open 
>>>>> FireFox and go there if it isn't running?
>>>>>     
>>>>>         
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>>>>       
>> If you want to use Seamonkey while running Firefox and/or Thunderbird, 
>> you can use my little tool to set it up as the default browser and 
>> create a SEAMONKEY!L.EXE to prevent DLL conflicts.
>>
>>   
> 


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